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addition to the accustomed fees payable to the Parish
Clerk, the Clergyman so appointed is entitled to a salary
of £30 per annum, payable from the pew rents.
On the 16th April, the Rector nominated, with the
consent of the Vestry, the Rev. W. T. Farmiloe, M.A., of
Cambridge, to be Clerk of the Parish and Parish Church, in
succession to the Rev. E. W. Windle, who had some time
previously been presented to the living of Ugborough,
Devonshire.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
The Act to encourage the establishment of Public Batl is
and Washhouses was adopted by the Vestry in the same
year that it became law, 1846. The Act is not administered
by the Vestry, but by seven Commissioners appointed
by them. The Commissioners are largely independent of
the Vestry, but have to obtain their consent to contracting
loans, and also to expenditure in certain cases. They
are not required to periodically report their proceedings to
the Vestry, although it has become their practice of late years
for them to present a report annually.
From the Annual Report of the Commissioners presented
to the Vestry in January, it appears that the number of
bathers and washers (156,428) was nearly 7,000 in excess of
the number for the previous year, and that this increase
is spread over every class using the building.
This report contains information of permanent interest,,
and the following extracts are therefore given:—